Affiliate Disclosure: This review contains affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps support our testing work. You don’t need many tools to make compost. As long as you’ve got something to collect your compost in (wheelbarrow, caddy or even a […]
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It was the middle of the night, and Phocas was digging a grave in his vegetable garden. Inside his house Roman soldiers were asleep. They had come to Sinope to find and kill a man named Phocas. That evening they had knocked on his door asking for lodging, not knowing they were asking the man
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You’ve probably been told to keep cooking oil out of compost – probably because of the fear that it will clog up the compost, stop oxygen from reaching compost material and/or attract pests. But a while back I came across a study that suggested it could be beneficial in multiple ways. Japanese researchers found that
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Like most other gardening/composting sites, 99% of the articles I write about assume you have a garden to make compost in. But the reality is billions of people live in a gardenless house or flat. The desire to compost often exists, but the space to do so using traditional methods doesn’t. It’s true that you
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There is a Douglas fir on Haida Gwaii that is several hundred years old. Its roots go into soil that has never seen the ocean. Yet when scientists analysed its growth rings, they found that up to 80% of its nitrogen came from the Pacific. And it’s all down to fish. Pacific salmon begin their
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In July 2022, a burnt-out Russian tank sat in Lyudmila Nishenko’s garden in Velyka Dymerka, a village about 30 kilometres northeast of Kyiv. It had been there since the Russian advance on the capital earlier that year. Rather than wait for someone to remove it, she poured soil into the turret and used it as
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If you owned a building in one city, your tenants’ toilet output could earn you nearly twice a carpenter’s annual wage. In London, at the same time, your tenants would have thrown it out the window. Welcome to Edo, home to a million people by the early 18th century, by some estimates the largest city
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